profiles

He was once hailed as the next Marvin Gaye. Then, after his ripped body threatened to overshadow his music, he vanished into addiction. So what the hell was he doing recently singing
his heart out in a Pentecostal church in Stockholm? And how
are his abs? Amy Wallace witnessed D'angelo's ecstatic return to the stage—and hung out with the master of the sacred and the profane as he finishes his first album in a dozen years read more

Is your look starting to feel a little one-note? Then flip it like mega-producer Pharrell Williams—a man who sees sounds, hears hues, and is having his best year ever at age 40—by cranking up the colors

From Bottle Rocket to this month's Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's films have made devilish misfit brainiacs into heroes and unlikely sex objects. But not even his best-drawn characters dress the part as well as Anderson himself

The New York design duo Jeff Halmos and Sam Shipley made their name dressing well-groomed indie rockers and their followers. Now they're expanding their prep-with-an-edge empire to lines for gym junkies and southern gents

For every Peyton, Brady, or Brees, there are a hundred NFL hopefuls who don't dream of stardom. They just want a job. They show up at training camp, work their asses off, and pray not to get cut. For these anonymous guys on the NFL bubble, every hard knock, every missed tackle, is compounded by the psychic burden of living each practice in limbo. This is the story of three bubble players—a quarterback, a receiver, and a kicker—and their now-or-never gridiron dreams